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January 25, 2005
dtSearch - Have You Ever Used It?
The name dtSearch certainly sounds familiar, but I can't remember where I've heard it. I don't know anyone who has used it at their firm or library, so that can't be it. Maybe I've seen it mentioned in PC Magazine? Perhaps it runs a database product I've used?
This lack of visibility in the library community is exactly what irritates Ernest Perez. In his Online article, "dtSearch: The Little Search Engine That Could," he points out that "Despite all the success of this database application product in the software general marketplace, it appears to me that the proefssional library community seems to have pretty much ignored it."
If you're wondering what its capabilities are, you definitely need to read this article. It sounds quite powerful, and yet is relatively inexpensive and it runs on Windows and Linux.
Is anyone out there using it as an intranet search engine? For other purposes? If so, let us know! And you probably should let Ernest Perez know, too. It might make him feel better.
(Note to Reader: Online articles typically appear on Looksmart's FindArticles a few months after publication.)
Comments
The Informed Librarian Online (http://www.informedlibrarian.com) uses dtSearch for our ILOSearch, the revolutionary new index to library journals. At this point in time, we are indexing 26,000+ library journal articles and contents from 300 different titles -- including all of the journal contents, the full-text articles, and abstracts that we link to in each issue. The database grows every month. We have fully customized dtSearch to suit our search and retrieval needs.
dtSearch is extremely fast and reliable. Relevant results are returned immediately. dtSearch supports very sophisticated search
techniques: boolean searching (and, or not, w/), stemming, fuzzy searching, phonic searching, synonym expansion, and even variable term weights. It provides us with the ability to search through totally current library literature from 2003 to date in a most efficient way. We, and all of our users, are extremely satisfied with the search engine.
Regards,
Arlene L. Eis
Infosources Publishing
140 Norma Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Phone: 201-836-7072 Fax: 201-836-9591
URL: http://www.infosourcespub.com
Posted by: Arlene Eis at January 29, 2005 05:25 PM
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